We’re just out of a lunch session to further refine our vision statement. We’ve each come away with the task of summarizing our thoughts in a blog format so that we can share it with whoever reads this blog and have it for posterity, but also knowing that the exercise of summarizing all our thoughts will be good for the process and the organization. We actually thought that by the close of today’s session that we would have breezed right through the vision and mission statements and made our way through the drivers, strategic objectives and functional imperatives that make up the nuts and bolts of a plan, but…..... we were wrong. What ensued instead was a lively conversation for 2 hours about just the vision statement! None of us felt that the current one,

“To transform Durham into a community of people who truly live the value of “Love Thy Neigbor,” meaning that they generously give of their time and resources to helping each other”

really cut it. It isn’t/wasn’t edgy enough for all of us and the words didn’t seem to inspire anyone. Not that it was bad, but we all knew that we didn’t want just another vision statement full of platitudes that would make folks gloss over.

The strange thing is that after 2 hours we’re actually further away from having a vision statement than when we walked in, BUT that we all feel that we’ve made great progress in understanding what our organization will do and how we all feel about it. We’ll be interested to get your take. What follows next is my take of that, and in the following blogs you’ll see the take of Heather, Mike and Chris…............David may even weigh in with some of this thoughts as well)

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